Porte de Versailles (Paris Métro)
 Porte de Versailles Parc des Expositions de Paris |
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| Tariff zone | 1 |
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| place | Paris XV |
| opening | November 5, 1910 |
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Porte de Versailles →  
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The metro station Porte de Versailles is an underground station of Line 12 of the Paris Métro . There are transfer options to tram lines 2 and 3a .
location
The station is located in the Saint-Lambert district of the 15th arrondissement of Paris . It is located under the Place de la Porte de Versailles and lengthways under Avenue Ernest Renan on the southern Paris city limits.
Surname
It is named after the former Porte de Versailles. Through this gate (fr: porte) in the Thiers city fortifications , the road led to the suburb of Versailles , which today has around 85,000 inhabitants and is world-famous for its castle .
History and description
A first station was put into operation on November 5, 1910, as the first section of line A of the Société du chemin de fer électrique souterrain Nord-Sud de Paris (North-Sud) from the station Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to Porte de Versailles was opened. It was located northeast of the Place de la Porte de Versailles under the Rue de Vaugirard . As such, it no longer exists today, but serves as a tunnel for four parallel tracks. Under an elliptical , white tiled vault were two side platforms on two main tracks. In contrast to the stations set up by the Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris (CMP), the side walls did not follow the curvature of the ellipse, but ran vertically in the lower area. Because of the overhead line originally on the north-south routes , it was slightly higher than the CMP stations located under similar vaults. It had the standard length of 75 m in Paris at the time, sufficient for five-car trains.
After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, line A was renamed to line 12 on March 27, 1931. Until 1934, the Porte de Versailles station was the southern terminus of line 12.
When the line was extended in a southerly direction (opening on March 24, 1934), the previous station was closed and a new underground station was then built to the south. The previous station concourse was retained. Their platforms have been removed and four new tracks have been laid in this area: the two eastern ones have been reserved for through traffic since then, the western ones serve as sidings and as access to the Atéliers de Vaugirard depot .
South of the old station concourse are two new halls with an unusual track and platform configuration. The north-eastern part of the larger hall is rectangular and unusually high, the ceiling rests on massive cross members. A central platform begins there and is framed by two tracks. On the southeast side there is a third track that the trains in the direction of Front Populaire pass through without stopping.
The central platform continues in the southwest half of the larger hall. Of the tracks on it, the western one is mainly used for traffic to and from the nearby depot. The regular trains in the direction of Mairie d'Issy stop at the other platform . This part of the hall has an elliptical cross-section, the ceiling and walls are tiled in white.
The smaller hall for the trains coming from Mairie d'Issy is offset by approx. 40 m lengthways to the southwest and is also tiled in white. It lies in full length under an elliptical vaulted ceiling and has a side platform on the southeast side. On the other side is a retaining wall, which is broken through in several places towards the larger hall.
The tunnel also has four tracks to the southwest of the underground station. Track D provides the connection from the depot in the direction of Mairie d'Issy, while track 2 is used for regular traffic. The trains from the depot in the direction of Front Populaire have to cross track 2 and thus reach track Z, on which there is an operating platform, over which the driver walks to the other end of the train. Regular trains enter the smaller hall via platform 1.
There are several entrances, two of which have the north-south decor with the word METROPOLITAIN (originally: NORD-SUD). The access on the southeast side of the Rue de Vaugirard is also one of the few with a curved staircase.
Accidents
On April 23, 1930, two trains collided at the station, killing two people. On January 10, 1963, another collision of two trains in the station resulted in 40 injuries.
vehicles
On line 12, trains of the north-south type Sprague-Thomson ran initially , which differed in several points from the Sprague-Thomson vehicles of the CMP. A striking feature was the power supply of the leading railcar by means of a pantograph . After the takeover of Nord-Sud by CMP, this type of business was given up in the 1930s. In the 1970s, the north-south trains were eliminated in favor of the Sprague-Thomson standard design, and in 1977 modern trains of the MF 67 series came onto the line.
Change to the tram
On December 16, 2006, tram line 3 (today: 3a) along the Boulevards des Maréchaux , and with it its Porte de Versailles stop, opened. Tram line 2 reached its current south-eastern terminus, Porte de Versailles, on December 21, 2009, which is at right angles to line 3a on Avenue Ernest Renan.
Surroundings
The Dôme de Paris sports palace (Palais des Sports) and the Parc des expositions de la porte de Versailles trade fair and exhibition grounds are in the immediate vicinity of the station .
Web links
- Plan of the tracks and platforms at carto.metro.free.fr
literature
- Gérard Roland: Stations de métro. D'Abbesses à Wagram . 2003, ISBN 2-86253-307-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gérard Roland: Stations de métro d'Abbesses à Wagram . Christine Bonneton, Clermont-Ferrand 2011, ISBN 978-2-86253-382-7 , pp. 174 .
- ^ Jean Tricoire: Un siècle de métro en 14 lignes. De Bienvenüe à Météor . 2nd Edition. La Vie du Rail, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-902808-87-9 , p. 294 .
- ^ Brian Hardy: Paris Metro Handbook . 3. Edition. Capital Transport Publishing, Harrow Weald 1999, ISBN 1-85414-212-7 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ a b Jean Tricoire, op. Cit. P. 295.
| Previous station | Paris metro | Next station |
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Convention ← Front Populaire |
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Corentin Celton Mairie d'Issy → |
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 56 ″ N , 2 ° 17 ′ 16 ″ E